Over at the ISC blog, Peter ffoulkes from TheInfoPro writes that the enterprise is finally starting to discover that HPC is the pathway to success, especially when it comes to Big Data Analytics.

Going back to fundamentals, HPC is frequently defined as either compute intensive or data intensive computing or both. Welcome to today's hottest commercial computing workload, 'Total Data' and business analytics. As described by 451 Research, 'Total Data' involves processing any data that might be applicable to the query at hand, whether that data is structured or unstructured, and whether it resides in the data warehouse, or a distributed Hadoop file system, or archived systems, or any operational data source ' SQL or NoSQL ' and whether it is on-premises or in the cloud.